بطخ
Urdu
Etymology
Somehow derived from Classical Persian بت (bat, “duck”) (perhaps with the diminutive suffix ـه (-a)), a Wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة (baṭṭa), بَطّ (baṭṭ), Old Armenian բադ (bad), among others.
Cognate with Punjabi ਬੱਤਕ (battak), ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax), Gujarati બતક (batak), Sindhi بَدَڪَ (badaka) / Sindhi बदक (badaka), Marathi बदक (badak), Konkani बदक (badak), Oriya ବତକ (bôtôkô), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.t̪ː.əx/
- Rhymes: -əx
Noun
بَطَّخ • (battax) f (Hindi spelling बत्तख़)
- duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
- بطخیں زیادہ تر مچھلیاں کھاتی ہیں۔
- battaxẽ zyāda tar machliyã khātī ha͠i.
- Ducks generally eat fish.
Declension
| Declension of بطخ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | بطّخ (battax) | بطّخیں (battaxẽ) |
| oblique | بطّخ (battax) | بطّخوں (battaxõ) |
| vocative | بطّخ (battax) | بطّخو (battaxo) |
References
- S. W. Fallon (1879), “بطخ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- “بطخ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “بطخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بطخ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “بطخ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- John Shakespear (1834), “بطخ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, OCLC 875051092